In this episode, Elsa speaks to Dr.Steve Keen, an Honorary Professor at the University College London. Before that, he taught at universities across the United Kingdom and Australia. He is an Australian economist and author and his research is centered around post-Keynesian economics, criticising neoclassical economics. He has over 70 academic publications on topics as diverse as financial instability, the money creation process, flaws in Marxian economics, the application of physics to economics, Islamic finance, and the role of chaos and complexity theory in economics. His work has been translated into Chinese, German and Russian.

During the podcast we will dive into impact of climate change on economics, mathematical flaws in the conventional model of supply and demand and inclusion of non monetary variables in the calculation of GDP.